Papadakes' Class Day One - Asian Markets and Magellan

Day One:

On day one, Mrs. Papadakes’s learned about the spice

trade. They also talked about routes to the Asian markets and

Magellan. The kids learned how on Magellan’s journey around

the world, as the first man to circumnavigate the world,
 the crew used spices to preserve their meat, and

eventually resorted to eating rats when their rations wore out.

In the end, even though there were lots of profits, only one ship

made it back, with out Magellan! Lots of men got the disease scurvy and some

ships even turned around because the journey was just too hard. Magellan was killed by Pacific Island Natives, yet his crew kept on making it all the way back to Europe. 

The group decided to make a slideshow with the kids for

a presentation/play. Each child would talk about one subject

and represent one person having to do with the journey.

Anthony would be a ship mate talking about Scurvy, Carter

would represent Magellan and talk about spices with Bradyn(a

ship mate), Skyler and Ben would be ship mates talking about

changing the ships, and finally, Britney would talk about the

available food on the ship and what her and her fellow ship

mates ate.

In the play, there will be a green screen and Raevyn will be

the reporter who teleports back into the past and finds Anthony

who has a horrible case of scurvy. Raevyn and Anthony will

then talk to Skyler and Ben about what happens on the ship.

Then they’ll talk to Carter and Braydn about the spices and

finally Britney about the food. They all kill Carter (Magellan) in

the end of the play and will use ketchup as fake blood. The

crew and Raevyn finish the voyage home and Ross ends it by

saying “it’s all good!”. Raevyn, Ross, Nathan, and John are the

high schoolers responsible for the group, the roles that Ross,

Nathan and John will play, however, haven’t been figured out

yet.